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186CHAPTER 3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY The purpose of the study was to provide a systematic description which it is related to knowledge practice and attitudes towards the level of awareness of dengue home self test kit among the population of female s resident at Rafflesia 2 UiTM Selangor This chapter explain the procedure that related to methodology as how the researcher was executed the research The procedure that included under this research are the research design sampling frame sampling techniques sample size unit of analysis data collection procedures validity of instruments and data of analysis 3 1 Study Design The research design for this study is correlational method According to Salkind 2009 the method of correlational is used to determine the relationship between two or more variable It is to study the two variables without any attempt to influence them Thus this study was related to the knowledge attitudes and practices towards the level of awareness on home self test kit for dengue fever among the population at the resident at female s resident at Rafflesia 2 UiTM Selangor 3 2
The larger the sample sizes of the researcher the more representative the sample of population Therefore a huge number of sample size the smaller the sampling error By using the theory of Tabachnick and Fidell 1996 which it is related to sample size requirements This formulae can be shown as N 50 8m where m is the number of independent variables So by key in the number of independent variables the respondents consists of 74 but the researcher has increase the number to 100 respondents 3 6 Unit of Analysis The unit of analysis known as the subject that include in the study which it can be in group or focus to an individual In the research study the subject that has been selected more to an individual that referring to the target who are staying at Rafflesia 2 in UiTM Selangor and focused on their knowledge attitudes and practices towards the level of awareness on dengue home self test kit 3 7 Data Collection Procedure According to Salkind 2012 it was a time efficient of data collection method which the individuals can completely the questionnaires without getting any help or involvement of research which known as self administered questionnaires In this study 100 sets of questionnaires are distributed to the targeted geographical area 3 8 Instrument
The instrument of the study is a standardized questionnaire The items in the questionnaires were directed towards gaining the information of knowledge attitudes and practices of dengue fever towards the level of awareness of home self test kit which has given in Section A until Section E 3 9 Validity of Instrument It is a fact that the validity of an instrument should be examined to ensure the questionnaire is relevant for the respondents to answer before distributing the questionnaire to the respondents to obtain their feedback This was to ensure that the content of the questionnaire was valid and several alternatives would be used to measure the validity of the questionnaire The questionnaire was validated for its content validity by a lecturer from Health Administration HEALS course who have the knowledge in this research method fields to check for error 3 10 Data Analysis The data analysis was collected from the questionnaires would be filled using Statistical Package for Social Sciences SPSS version 21 0 Descriptive statistics were used in analyzing the data and it included mean standard deviation frequencies and percentages
